A father's letter, written down so it survives him — the Three Laws, the Four Virtues, and the stories that shape a life.
Discover the BooksCharacter through the Three Laws and the Four Virtues — a carpenter's son, a paratrooper, and a tactical instructor on what actually builds a man.
Logic, focus, and the examined life — teach them to think before the world teaches them what to think. Socrates meets the modern schoolyard.
Η ελληνική έκδοση — ελπίδες και όνειρα στο σκοτάδι. For the Greek readers: the original story of hope, in the language it was lived in.
Dimitrios Tsakmakis is a carpenter's son from a family that built factories with its hands and lost everything through the mistakes of others. A special forces paratrooper. A police tactical instructor. A man who has rushed into burning buildings, lost everything once, and rebuilt.
He wrote these books because his father's dementia taught him that everything a person knows can disappear while their body remains. These are the lessons he refuses to let vanish.
— Dimitrios Tsakmakis, Athens
The books are written to be read by the children themselves — readers 12 and up — and by the parents who want to hand them something real. No lectures. Short, direct chapters with true stories.
Published in Greece · ISBN-registered with the National Library of Greece · Sold worldwide via Lulu
Skills over shortcuts. What you make with your hands and mind, no one can take from you.
Self-deception is the slowest way to lose everything you built.
Strength is not for showing off. It exists so others can sleep at night.
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